ABSTRACT
This chapter begins to challenge the idea that social movements are best understood in relation to goals and objectives. While these are important, too much focus on them can oversimplify and obscure links and continuities in activism. Continuing to frame cycling activism as collective action, it encourages thinking about action as a complex and contradictory field. To further develop the implications of mobilities analysis, the discussion turns to reconsider the “movement” elements of social movement studies and how this reformulates interpretations of action. It argues for the decentring of agency and scepticism towards linear expectations of the relationship between actions and outcomes. Instead it suggests the need for greater sensitivity towards participant experiences and thus opens a discussion of research methods and the positioning and commitment of researchers.
